Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-30
WHAT rs SAID OF THEM.

HERBERT SPENCER is now living at
Brighton and his health is so poor
that he receives no callers. He is
writing an autobiography.
A FULL-LENGTH portrait of the late
OF Iddesleigb, painted by Earl Sydney
Hodges, has just been placed in the
Junior Carlton Club, London.
Gov.-ELECT JACKSON, of Maryland,
who is immensely wealthy, is said to
have promised his 81, 500 g. year
salary to his wife for pin.money.
The LEwIsTowN (Me.) JOURNAL as
serts that Nathaniel Hawthorne
spelled his last name Hawthorn"
when he was in Bowdoin College.
MRS. BROWN POTTER has souvenir
from the Prince OF Wales in the shape
of a. diamond pendant representing
the Princes crest, three feathers.
The young DUO d'Orleans, Is years
OF age, son of the Compile de Paris,
will reach San Francisco in the spring
and make tour OF this country.
The author of Orally Round the
Flag, Boys" ''Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp" and other famous war songs,
DR.. Geo. f. Root, is living at an ad-
vanced age at Hyde Park, I'll.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has communicate
ed to an interviewer the important
information that he will spend the
winter in New YORK and 60 to his
Scottish castle in the spring.
MRS. l.. M. BARRY, the general inves-
tigator of woman's labor, is in Balti-
more, Md, urging the oyster shuckers
OF the gentler sex in that locality to
form an assembly of the Knights OF
Labor.
FRED MCCRUM, q Titusville teleg-
rapher, made the fastest time on rec
ord in New York q few days ago, send
ing fifty-eight words a minute for
fOrty-slx mlnutes-a total of nearly
2,7OO words.
EVANGELIST MOODY has decided to
start for India in 1888, but before he
goes he will make an effort to convert
Louisville, KY. A tabernacle that
will seat 5000 persons is now being
built for tine revival meetings.
IT is probable that next spring Queen
Victoria will unveil the colossal bronze
statue of Gen. Gordon, which is to be
erected at Aberdeen, in front of the art
gallery. This statue was subscribed
for by the members Of the Gordon
clan.
CAPT. A. K. KAN, g '49er, died re.
Gently in San Jose, CAL, worth about
100000. He was bachelor and
occupied room in his livery stable.
His heirs are two brothers, one OF
whom lives in Oakland and the other
in Santa Cruz.
THE blind clergyman, the Rev. W.
Il. Milburn, will again be a candidate
for the chaplalncy of the National
House of Representatives. Several
Washington preachers will be his
rivals for the 5000 position OF spirit
ual adviser to the peoples represen-
tatives.
THE Hon. Col. Cody says he hasn't
he has been credited with, but he &C.
knowledges, nevertheless, that he is
worth 100000, mostly in Western
real estate. Nate Salisbury has put
by 100000 as his profits of the Wild
West venture.
YOUNG Samuel J. Tilden still signs
the junior after his name. "Since the
death Of your distinguished uncle I
would think that you would drop the
junior" remarked friend to him yes
terday. Eyes; but the name of my
uncle lives" said young Tilden.- New
York Telegram.
~ SEE it la stated that Mr.. Ruskin;s
profits from his books amounted last
year to $4,000" says London
Truth. 'No fewer than 1922 copies
OF Sesame and Lilies, were sold dur
ing 1886, and the authors profit from
the new edition of Stones Of Venice
exceeded Ell, 600"